Office profile -- Colorado Springs;

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OPENED A NEW OFFICE
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Would you believe that man's propen­sity
to foul his environment could some
day spoil even the Rocky Mountains?
You'd believe it if you drove the 70
miles from Colorado Springs north to
Denver on Interstate 25 at daybreak,
saw the early sunlight catch the majes­tic
snow-capped peaks, then looked
ahead to the city under a pall of pol­luted
mountain air. You'd believe it as
Long's Peak was blocked out by bill­boards
proclaiming "must-see" tourist
attractions, "hot" real estate bargains,
and other absolute necessities of mod­ern
life.
Yet, awareness of this very morbid
instinct to defile everything in sight is
leading Colorado, so richly endowed
by nature, to plan its destiny with more
determination than some older areas
where much damage is already done.
Profiting by the mistakes of others,
Colorado is planning more broadly, in­tegrating
more diverse interests, and
taking account of whole regions. In a
stroke of hyperbole, Arnold Toynbee,
the historian, once wrote for the
London Observer, "One can watch
Denver growing, and then one realizes
that within the lifetime of people al­ready
living, Denver is going to extend
eastward to Kansas City and south-westward
to Los Angeles . . ." Colorado
compels people to think big that way.
Our Denver Office was looking ahead
when in 1966 it proposed a sub-office
in Colorado Springs. It seemed a logical
move to make. We had been pressed
to do it for some time by bankers and
clients, particularly Holly Sugar Cor­poration,
which had been our good
client for more than thirty years. We
were already rendering a substantial
amount of service time to several dozen
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